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SCRAP METAL
Art focused on the relationship between word and image in an industrial hall
Collectors:
Samara Walbohm & Joe Shlesinger
Address:
11 Dublin Street, Unit E
Toronto ON M6H 1J4
Canada
Tel +1 416 5882442
Please check the website for the most current information on opening hours.
The name of the collection is bemusing: inside the former industrial warehouse, where investor Joe Shlesinger and his wife Samara Walbohm have presented selections from their collection since 2011, anything other than scrap metal is on view, as the name of the space cheekily suggests. Rather, the focus is on Canadian and international artists whose work is similarly humorous and ambiguous. This includes art by General Idea, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, Camille Henrot, or other global players. The names Dave Dyment, Micah Lexier, or Laurel Woodcock, however, are not so well known. All their works examine the complex interrelationship of language, text, and image. The link between art and text also resonates at Scrapbooks—a bookshop designed by Paul P.—where the artist currently exhibiting work at the collection determines the reading selection.
CANADA TORONTO
THE BRADSHAW COLLECTION
A collector couple that profits from the bundled synergy of their highly developed feel for art
Collectors:
Cecily & Robert Bradshaw
Address:
Toronto, Canada
Visitation permitted only occasionally. Please inquire by e-mail.
It was a shared love of art that brought Cecily and Robert Bradshaw together about ten years ago. Both collected art prior to their marriage but Robert Bradshaw attributes their current collection in large part to the influence of his wife’s tastes. Cecily Bradshaw sits on the Director’s Council of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, and their collection reflects this blue-chip sensibility. Works by Anselm Kiefer, Chiharu Shiota, William Kentridge, Tony Cragg, and Ross Bleckner are but a few of those installed in their Toronto home. To furnish their residence, the Bradshaws appointed renowned Dallas-based interior designer Jan Showers to create spaces that generously highlight the couple’s art collection. The design also took special care to incorporate the Bradshaws’ impressive trove of livres des artistes, featuring books illustrated by Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp, among others.
CANADA TORONTO
THE WEDGE COLLECTION
Contemporary African art in a penthouse in Toronto
Collector:
Kenneth Montague
Address:
25 Ritchie Avenue
Toronto ON M6R 2J6
Canada
Tel +1 416 7079400
info@wedgecuratorialprojects.org
www.wedgecuratorialprojects.org
By appointment only.
Contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora has recently taken an increasingly prominent position in the art historical canon—and rightly so. Among Toronto’s foremost collectors helping to push that evolution forward is dentistcum-curator Kenneth Montague. The Wedge Collection—the name he has given his assemblage of works—focuses on artists like Jennifer Packer, Mickalene Thomas, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Zanele Muholi, whose practices explore black identity. Begun in the late 1990s, the collection is now located in Montague’s David Anand Peterson-designed home. Montague himself started collecting at just ten years old and has gone on to assemble an impressive selection of mid-century design in addition to art. Now, the collector frequently stages programming and exhibitions at his home that are free and open to the public, and curates shows in Toronto and elsewhere of artists he collects and collaborates with.
CANADA VANCOUVER
RENNIE MUSEUM
Continuity since 1972: from trailblazing giants to new talents
Collector:
Bob Rennie
Address:
51 East Pender Street
Vancouver BC V6A 1S9
Canada
Only guided tours with prior online registration.
A guided tour through Chinatown’s Wing Sang Building, where collector Bob Rennie presents his acquired works, takes exactly fifty minutes—not a lot of time for one of the largest collections in Canada. But Rennie focuses on key figures, like John Baldessari, Mike Kelley, Mona Hatoum, Rodney Graham, or Belgian artist David Claerbout, who takes excerpts of Hollywood classics lasting seconds and stretches them out to last an entire day. The works owned by the realestate marketer are rearranged annually in two to three solo or group exhibitions. Rennie, who had the oldest building in the district lavishly renovated, has been collecting for over thirty years, acquiring many pieces now considered to be trailblazing. In addition he keeps himself abreast of contemporary art trends by collecting the works of talents like Turner Prize winners Martin Creed and Simon Starling.
